Recent content by verilu

I know that youtube recently implemented a closed captioning service that translate spoken words into text real time.

I know they have a software for that(Draganfly), but don't they have a portable device where they use the device close to their mouth when they're speaking and after finishing it, you can read it? Or when someone is talking on the phone, you place the device next to the phone and look at it...

I'm not a girl. Where did you get that impression/

You make a great point there, saywhatkid. I am going to contact the school's editor about this and hopefully I can get the words out. I don't want this incident to be a passing event. I want this to be significant that the safety of everyone in our school is incompetent.

Really? Do you think it's the kid in the wheelchair's fault that he couldn't make it down the stairwell because nobody helped him? How would he feel about that? The worst part was I could have died in my sleep while suffocating because of the fume. If it happened to the police officer on the...

Everyone knew I was hard of hearing. I gave the University my hearing test sheet and everything that proved I have a 90db loss. My RA knew I was deaf. Since they cutted the disability office for the year, I had to report to the dean of students for my accommodation. I did report to the dean...

So is it a violation that they failed to install a flasher smoke detector before the fire? Keep in mind that everyone was out of the building and my Resident Advisor couldn't get me.

This was three weeks ago. I was at college sleeping and when I woke up, I did my normal thing. Went to class. Then when I saw my youth minister, he told me there was a fire at a dorm building. I told him which building? He said James River. That was my building! I was shocked! For the...

thought that you completely forgot about being deaf or hearing impaired because you were so drawn into the hearing world? I have. I just found out today that I am clearly disabled because the hearing world couldn't provide necessary services for me.